AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260305125104/https://denverite.com/2026/03/02/aurora-geo-immigration-jail-ice-conditions-report/

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260303185619/https://www.wired.com/story/how-big-tech-is-powering-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

Diplococcus, diplodocus

https://beige.party/@LoganFive/110840198667719326

It is somewhat comforting to know that at least one leader has a spine to both say and do something about the shit show that Trump and Israel have started.

In Moscow, Judge Maxim Ivanov of the 2nd Western District Military Court has sentenced the 32-year-old photographer Alexander Strukov to a further six years in prison, finding him guilty of “justifying terrorism.”

Context: https://www.ft.com/content/8f5f18fb-311d-4df0-805c-063b292506b3

https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/

OpenAI president Greg Brockman was Trump’s Super PAC’s largest donor in their latest year-end report. He and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc last year, and CEO Sam Altman donated $1M to Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Fund. ICE uses OpenAI technology for recruitment. They’re cozying up to the White House while ICE is killing Americans and the Department of Justice is threatening to take over elections.

I personally havent really used emacs for organizing, but I really like it for bash coding and writing software documenation in orgmode. I am even starting to get a little bit comfortable at writing my .emacs file but at some point I will have to do a lot of reorganizing and updating and I kind of dont want to do it (I still use .emacs and not emacs.d/init.el and all keybindings still use the legacy global-set-key command).

This is the tough guy senator who broke a veteran’s arm, making sure he got mobbed by a bunch of donut eaters before doing so.

The Department of Energy claimed “emergency” conditions in the Pacific Northwest required TransAlta to continue running Washington [State’s] last coal plant past its planned retirement.

Fuck AI

Alabuga Polytech and the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Russia’s Tatarstan have launched a large-scale advertising campaign to recruit more students to assemble Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones, which are widely used by the Russian military in the invasion of Ukraine. The independent science-focused outlet T-invariant obtained nearly 6.5 gigabytes of promotional videos in which underage students openly discuss their work assembling drones. For the first time in Alabuga-related promotional materials, the production of combat drones is explicitly mentioned, and workshops responsible for churning out the distinctive black UAVs are shown.

[Original source in German.]

More than two decades in the making, the European Union’s trade deal with the Mercosur bloc has taken on renewed urgency in light of tensions with the US. Some within the EU see the agreement as environmentally destructive and a threat to the primary sector, but Europe needs to form more partnerships to strengthen its autonomy and resist commercial coercion.

Hey look everyone! More of that famous populism Trump rode into power on!

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/32814

Two US Defense Department employees were wounded when an Iranian drone hit a hotel in Bahrain’s capital Manama, The Washington Post reported Monday.

see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was “defenceless” and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports.

Adina Levin took Caltrain to San Francisco from her home in Menlo Park one night last month. A 40-minute ride on a train seems mundane, but Levin’s trip reflected a big change to the region’s transportation ecosystem — the result of a sweeping modernization of the rail corridor.

France has authorised United States forces to use French military bases during the conflict involving Iran, according to a report by BFMTV.

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S17E7 “The Gang Gets Ready for Prime Time”

No better time than now to start your journey!

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260305132350/https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/internal-dhs-watchdog-noem-obstructing-005817206.html

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so i was reading the linked article on MSN because i hate myself and it was discussing the recent drone attack that killed six US service members but focusing on one young man in particular, Declan Coady, who was only 20 years old when he died. it has the standard fluff you’d find in something written about a recently deceased person, but then it quotes US officials’ response to Coady’s death and i just.. honestly.. so many Americans are deeply brainwashed they have no clue what they are actually supporting implicitly.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260305125414/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/02/democratic-senate-candidate-angie-craig-says-she-regrets-vote-on-laiken-riley-immigration-law